Incessant tinkerer since the 70’s. Staunch privacy advocate. SelfHoster. Musician of mediocre talent. https://soundcloud.com/hood-poet-608190196

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldISO Selfhost
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    15 hours ago

    I can definitely sing the praises of Proxmox. One of the three businesses I run from home uses a piece of software called BlueBeam. Feature for feature, I’ve not been able to find an opensource alternative. So I spin up a Windows VM with Proxmox for BlueBeam. I also run quite a few of the helper scripts, tho I am really keeping an eye on that. There seems to be diverging opinions among the devs on how things should operate. I also run a couple of small AI projects on Proxmox, so yea…it gets a work out. For what Proxmox can do, I was honestly surprised that the community edition was free. That’s an awesome piece of software.





  • Samba was not designed to be containerized.

    There are some things that shouldn’t be containerized even tho they can be. I can see the benefit of a user wanting to containerize everything…it’s one neat little package. I look at on a case by case basis. For instance, Caddy I installed on bare metal instead of a container even tho there is one for Caddy.



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    22 hours ago

    Well, I’ve always been aware of Lemmy, Mastodon, Matrix, et al, but I really never explored them until now. I have been at Reddit now, since week one, and over the years I have really grown tired of the bullshit that goes on there. Lots of great subs especially selfhost and homelab, and some music subs, but you have to wade through all the crap to get to some good information.




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    23 hours ago

    Looking back on my post, I didn’t mean it to sound like I was throwing shade on the community. Bear with me. I understand fediverse, I dig decentralization, it just might take me a little while to firmly grasp the Lemmy concept. Like there are loads of these like lemmy.ml et al, and there seems to be a selfhost, or home lab something on each of them. All I wanted was a place where all the cool kids hung out at. LOL


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    23 hours ago

    Well thanks. I feel fortunate to be alive. My first computer was an Altair. Then the Timex/Sinclair, the TI, then just about one of each until some semblance of base line was established and not 20 companies producing propriety devices. It’s been a wild ride. I’m also a mediocre musician of about 65 years and the technology still blows me away every time I sit down to my DAW and controllers.

    Sorry to have taken your ‘OldHead’ status from you. lol




  • I have made a very concerted effort to block all ads from my network. I don’t want to see them, but more importantly, I don’t want their scripts, cookies, and crud on my network. This is my data created by my labor. Now my labor is mostly clickety, click, click, but it’s still mine and I reserve the right to do with my data as I see fit. I have a huge problem with corporations using my data to bolster the potential profits to their investors and themselves, while not giving me due compensation . Corporations buy out other corporations, not necessarily to bring their products into the purchaser’s catalog, but to get eyeballs on their stolen data.